Dan's Blog

This week covers just a small snippet of what is going on with wine in the world’s most populated country. As China continues to grow and expand as a wine drinking nation, we need to stay fully aware of what is going on there and its potential impact on the Australian wine industry.Read More...

Vinexpo Hong Kong (HKV) held in late May (where Australia was the “Country of the Year” in 2018) brought out some very interesting facts. Starting with the estimate that China will continue to drive the world’s wine sales growth as it increases its consumption to around USD23 billion by 2023. To put that into context, Australia (at No.2 imported wine country) sold them AUD2 billion worth of wine in 2017. It is estimated that China will become the second largest (by value) wine market in the world by then, second only to the USA.Read More...